he flipped 209 counties that had twice voted for barack obama. >> i spent my entire life and business looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world. that is now what i want to do for our country. reporter: after a recount and a campaign, the postelection period would be dominated from his by chief that the kremlin had interfered with the election to swing it for mr. trump. >> they hacked into some democratic party e-mails that contained pretty routine stuff. some of it embarrassing or uncomfortable. the president-elect agreed. >> as far as the election. [inaudible] reporter: finally the fateful hour arrived. >> so help me god. congratulations mr. president. [applause] reporter: his inaugural address would be the shortest in four decades and the sharpest indictment of his immediate predecessors from both parties seated behind him that any new party has delivered. >> the establishment protected itself but not the citizens of our country. reporter: he proclaimed america first and promised to turn around the carnage of our cities, secure our borders and er

perhaps barack obama does deserve a little bit of credit for that. we'll see 20 years from now, children who grew up thinking of a black man as president. >> if it does continue to improve as it has generationally, it will not be because of barack obama. he had an extraordinary opportunity when he came into the white house to really see a progress -- seal the progress. >> bret: next step, this week's winners and losers. [vo] quickbooks introduces rodney. he has a new business teaching lessons. rodney wanted to know how his business was doing... ...so he got quickbooks. it organizes all his accounts, so he knows where he stands. ahhh...that's a profit. way to grow, rodney! visit quickbooks.com. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. truecar has pricing data on every make and model, so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is truecar. >> bret: thanks everybody for letting us into her home tonight. tonight we have the winners and losers with the panel. >>

that was 2009 at barack obama's inauguration crowd there and 2017. charles. >> you use the word surreal which is a nice way of saying just plain. for the press secretary to step out on what looked like an emergency, we were going to do it on monday but we moved it up and it's basically over ratings. it was only a week ago that as president-elect he was tweeting about the ratings for celebrity apprentice and sort of mocking his successor. arnold schwarzenegger compared his ratings to investing key referred himself djt as they ratings machine. this is an obsession which is not terribly healthy -- healthy. it's been one that trump has had crowd size, poll numbers when they are good people save them and it's not a good way to start out. i'm the world's expert on the churchill lost because i pointed it out at the beginning of the obama administration. they denied it ever happened and in the end they had to issue an apology which i know was the only time the previous administration obama had ever apologized. this. bret: we should point out that isn't presi

. >> it was the defining promise of barack obama's presidency. >> if you like the plan you have, you can keep it. >> affordable care act, the president's most contentious domestic initiative. at town halls, critics vented their anger, in part stirred by the tea party movement. >> strike it down. >> which arose to oppose what it called socialized medicine. even a bipartisan brainstorming session saw the president abraded its components. >> we are not campaigning. >> to cover the 44 million americans who lack health insurance, the measure expanded medicaid subsidies, offered online exchanges embraced by 39 states. find noncompliant employers and penalized uninsured people. the measure allow children to remain on parents plans through age 26 and banned insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. when republicans mustered 41 votes against obamacare, the democrats employed the parliamentary tactic of reconciliation, requiring only 51 votes for passage. >> we don't know exactly what's in the bill. >> by the time the vote has taken place, not only i will know wha

obama for doing the same thing. all of these executive orders so far are pretty much within the normal authority of the presidency the united states. he hasn't just lighted, hasn't done anything that the substance of the criticism against obama. no one is against executive orders as executive orders. they are against using them as a substitute for going to congress. this is a great political fight for donald trump to have to go to congress and say the democrats don't want to secure the border. >> chris: republicans protecting the country and enforcing borders. let's talk about it, charlie. mr. trump's actions this week to crack down on immigration both legal and illegal have already provoked a sharp backlash on capitol hill. let's look first and what the president said in an interview today with abc news and then congressional democratic reaction. >> of the american taxpayer will pay for the wall at first. >> reimbursed from a later date with whatever transaction we make with mexico. >> american people are going to

barack obama came in wanting to reset relations. he thought that we could work with russia and various aspects and make some accomplishments, and a very similar way that president trump says that he wants to come in. he is not using the term "reset" because i didn't turn out so well. it is very interesting how it took eight years for barack obama's viewpoint to change and ultimately, it did. but president donald trump's coming end, saying, we can make some progress with our russia counterparts. we can fight isis together. we can do these things. it is very interesting to me that there are the similarities. >> bret: panel, standby, if you would. we might have some more sound bites in the next panel. next up, the senate takes the first step in the process of repealing obamacare. ♪ ns. trust safelite. with safelite's exclusive "on my way text"... you'll know exactly when we'll be there. giving you more time for what matters most. (team sing) safelite repair, safelite replace. by simply enjoying it. boost® simply complete. it's intel

one, a gift from his mother, the other the same lincoln bible barack obama used in 2009. >> bret: john hubbard's here in. let's get more on the democratic perspective on the boycott. steve: from tennessee is in the group of lawmakers for said they will not be attending. representative joins us tonight. thanks for being here. why are you doing this? >> several reasons. a large part is to let my district know that they have a voice in washington. my district voted strongly for hillary clinton and they felt that the slight tweet of john lewis, fighting for civil rights and voting rights at the edmund pettus bridge, it was wrong to say he was talk, talk, talk and no action. john lewis is a man of action. he had to do it against his own government to get voting rights and civil rights for that was wrong. that was the straw that broke the camel's back. >> bret: could it be he was not talking about his civil rights record and what he did in the past but what he's doing now to lift inner-city situations across america? and particularly in his district? i'm not reading between the lines here in

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barack obama's approval ratings have been going up, somewhat unusual. he will still be the head of the democratic party. to remain as an ex- he's got to remain at least somewhat above politics. that's a difficult line to walk. eisenhower, you wrote the great book about, went to gettysburg. washington went to mount vernon. obama's gonna stay in washington until his daughter finishes high school and then is going to move to chicago. he's going to be called on to unite the dispatch party. >> bret: thank you. the book "washington's farewell." thanks for being here. why doesn't the u.s. have a detailed plan to fight in cyberspace? the latest from the pentagon on that issue when we come back. >> bret: one of the most disturbing things to come out of recent statements from a american military and intelligence officials is the lack of a basic plan to deal with cyber threats. more on this from jennifer griffin at the pentagon. good evening. >> good evening. president-elect donald trump has given his national security team 90 days to come up with a plan to defend

bush, and barack obama blocked the move citing security concerns. that decision now belongs to president donald trump. >> news from israel this morning, the israeli government has approved a 2500 additional units. >> bret: rich edson at the state department. we are getting reaction tonight to news that one of president obama's final acts was to give more than 220 million of your tax dollars to organizations involved with the palestinian authority despite opposition from congress. here is chief washington correspondent james rosen. >> protesters in the gaza strip warrant president trump against any move of the u.s. embassy in the wake of a move by they had obama administration in its final days to unlock $220 million in u.s. funding to help palestinians with debt relief, water and energy infrastructure. republican lawmakers had put a nonbinding hold on the money in protest over the palestinian authority's efforts to seek unilateral recognition at the united nations. the trump white house declined to take a position except to emphasize the president's

they are thinking cory booker is the next barack obama. this is setting him up perhaps to take the lead in the future of the democratic party and a meaningful way. it's a big mistake for cory. he's a smart guy and he has taken a turn to the left that he's going to regret having done. >> is there a nominee in the crosshairs that is potentially in trouble? >> tillerson will be the nominee perhaps they can wound most grievously because of the russia connection. new developments on russia that maybe will be talking about later. i think they can most smear trump with that story. they can stay on the russia hacking story, future conflicts with trump business entities. they can say that trump put in someone who had cozy his nice dealings with the kremlin, maybe they think they can get some traction but i don't think it's going to work. >> straight shooter. >> there are democrats who say this is illegitimate, that donald trump should not be president. that somehow they hacking affected the election to the point where he shouldn't win. >> you are n

bush and barack obama appointed these officials. they had served decades as career employees. sources close to state they expected undersecretary of management patrick kennedy to leave. he drew criticism from the man now running the government. >> newly released fbi documents made public today reveal just how deep this corruption goes. you saw it. the under secretary of state, patrick kennedy, illegally pressure the fbi to un-classify emails from hillary's illegal server. undersecretary kennedy needs to resign. >> state department and fbi denied those claims in the department is still waiting for a confirmed secretary of state. senate leaders say though. it will consider rex tillerson's nomination next week. >> james: mainstream media were never keen on donald trump's candidacy but now that he's in the oval office, reporters and editors appear to have adopted an even sharper edge in their coverage of the 45th president. joining me to discuss this brave new world are howard kurtz and chris starr well. welcome to you both. let's put some flesh on these bones. a recent "new york

. >> barack obama is going to be engaged to a degree in partisan politics that we have not seen in a long time. what i think he wants to do is make the country progressive or at least have a hold until the next democratic president comes in. >> one mandatory stop on the post presidential track will be the publication and promotion of a memoir by the former president of a former first lady. the former president should enjoy something of a leg up on his peers. he published memoirs before becoming president. >> bret: there may be more to a terror attack on a saudi arabian ship off the coast of yemen that first thought. and iran may be conducting more missile testing and we've been led to believe. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the specifics from the pentagon. >> a day after the u.n. security council called an emergency meeting to discuss ron's test of a medium-range ballistic missile sunday, fox news has learned of another secret missile launch from the same launchpad used previously by the tehran regime. a ballistic missile was fired based on north korean technolo

barack obama's approval ratings have been going up, somewhat unusual. he will still be the head of the democratic party. to remain as an ex-president, he's got to remain at least somewhat above politics. that's a difficult line to walk. eisenhower, you wrote the great book about, went to gettysburg. washington went to mount vernon. obama's gonna stay in washington until his daughter finishes high school and then is going to move to chicago. he's going to be called on to unite the dispatch party. >> bret: thank you. the book "washington's farewell." thanks for being here. why doesn't the u.s. have a detailed plan to fight in cyberspace? the latest from the pentagon on that issue when we come back. hey, need fast heartburn relief? try cool mint zantac. it releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. nexium can take 24 hours. try cool mint zantac. no pill relieves heartburn faster. new girl, huh? yeah, i'm -- i couldn't help but notice you checking out my name your price tool. yeah, this bad boy gives you